Tim Melling – Nightjar

  Tim writes:  Most people think of Nightjar as a bird of lowland heaths but this one was high in the Pennines at well over 1000 feet above sea level in Yorkshire.  The second half of May is my usual time for Nightjars but ill-health meant I wasn’t fit enough this year.  So I went…

RSPB White-tailed Eagle story

An RSPB press release:   Online sea eagle star re-emerges four years on Mull eagle now in the Highlands A sea eagle, whose movements as a youngster were followed online by people around the world, has been found successfully raising a family in the northern Highlands. Known as Shelly, she was fitted with a satellite…

Tales from the Bird Fair (5)

Michael Gove’s ears should have been burning last weekend.  It’s not that everyone at the Bird Fair was talking about him, but some were. And it’s not that everyone believes that he is going to do good things but some do, and most of the rest will wait and see. His name came up in…